Varicella and Shingles Vaccine - For Profit Quackery
Shingles Vaccine Maker, Merck, Sued In Federal Court
Merck and Co. are being sued over Zostavax, their vaccine which is marketed as the “shingles vaccine” and is the source of millions in marketing and advertising. Following several cases against Merck whereas individuals claim injury from taking Zostavax, there are said to be even more cases in the works. The plaintiffs have sued in Pennslyvania federal courts.
“I think Merck has failed terribly … to warn about the very serious side effects and the failure of the vaccine to do what they claim it does,” attorney Marc Bern told FiercePharma.
Bern, founding partner at Marc J. Bern & Partners, said his firm has “thousands of complaints” yet to be filed in Philadelphia, with the injuries running “the gamut from contracting shingles as a result of the vaccine all the way to serious personal injuries such as blindness in one eye, individuals who have serious paralysis in their extremities, brain damage, all the way to death.”
In a statement, Merck said it “stands behind the demonstrated safety and efficacy” of the shot, which is licensed in 50 countries.
“Nothing is more important to Merck than the safety of our medicines and vaccines,” a spokesperson told FiercePharma. She said the company has distributed more than 36 million doses of the shot since its 2006 approval. Before winning a FDA nod, Zostavax’s safety and effectiveness were studied in more than 30,000 patients, and a CDC committee continues to recommend its use, she pointed out.
“The company has continuously provided appropriate and timely information about Zostavax to consumers and to the medical, scientific and regulatory communities,” according to Merck’s statement.
This story breaks just days following Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s latest column, The Full Story About Zostavax, The Shingles Vaccine, whereas she breaks down the dangers and warnings related to the vaccine.
http://vaxxter.com/shingles-vaccine-...federal-court/
The Full Story about Zostavax, the Shingles Vaccine
POSTED BY: SHERRI TENPENNY, DO
Humans are the only known host for the herpes varicella-zoster virus (VZV) that causes chickenpox. A very benign infection in the vast majority of children, chickenpox used to be called a “right of passage” disease, with most kids contracting the infection between the ages of 8 and 12. Recovery left behind lifetime immunity and in little girls, antibodies to be passed to their infants through breast milk later on life.
Vaccinated persons can still contract chickenpox. The so-called “breakthrough infection” occurs in approximately 2 percent of vaccinations per year. That may sound like a small number until you do the math. With nearly 4 million live births per year in the US, 2 percent equates to at least 80,000 cases of breakthrough chickenpox. And even though doctors say the infection will be “less serious” if the child has been vaccinated, severe cases have been reported.
A study released March 2017 examined the incidence of severe breakthrough chickenpox infection. They performed a systematic review of articles published between 1974 and 2016. The study’s abstract reports their disturbing findings:
“We found 52 to 60 unique cases of breakthrough varicella that involved organs other than the skin. We also found the following complications, with each disorder not unique or mutually exclusive: pneumonia (n = 8–9 cases), neurologic (n = 18–24 cases), hematologic (n = 10–11 cases), ocular (n = 5 cases), renal (n = 2 cases), hepatic (n = 3 cases), secondary infection with bacteremia or sepsis (n = 8 cases), and other complications (n = 4 cases). There were 6 cases of fatal breakthrough varicella.”
And it gets worse.
Without re-exposure, the dormant chickenpox virus can reactivate in adults, leading to the painful rash referred to as herpes zoster (HZ) or shingles. The zoster rash is typically unilateral, does not cross the midline and follows a distribution along a dermatome, an area of the skin supplied by nerves from a single spinal root. The painful rash usually lasts 7-10 days but can last 3 to 4 weeks, or more.
HZ causes acute and chronic complications, with complications occurring in 15%–40% of cases. The most common is post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN), persistent, often permanent pain that remains long after the HZ rash has disappeared. Another severe complication HZ is herpes ophthalmicus (HO), when the virus inflames nerves near or in the eye. If not aggressively treated with antivirals and steroids, HO can result in loss of vision in the affected eye.
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The Chickenpox Vaccine: A new epidemic of disease and corruption Paperback – August 14, 2006
by Mark Orrin (Author), Gary S. Goldman Ph.D. (Editor)
"The Chickenpox Vaccine: A new epidemic of disease and corruption" is about behind-the-scene health issues and their effect on individuals in Antelope Valley, California-a geographically distinct region consisting primarily of two large cities, Palmdale and Lancaster, with a population of over 300,000. In 1995, the FDA licensed a vaccine to protect against a common childhood disease. Healthcare officials believed it was safe, when in fact, it had not been thoroughly tested. Dr. Goldman, who was studying the effect of the vaccine on the population, was encouraged to generate findings that would lead to publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals. All positive findings were published in a timely manner; however, when Dr. Goldman began to present deleterious outcomes, these seemed to be treated much differently and would portend increased risk of reactivation of a more serious disease harbored by 95% of the adult U.S. population.
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Appendix X. Brief Summary of Chickenpox: A New Epidemic of Disease and Corruption
http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/wp...oxVaccine1.pdf
Shingles Goes Epidemic: Chicken Pox Vax to Blame
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/shi...-pox-vax-blame
Shingles Vaccine? Really?
Meanwhile, some people are filing shingles vaccine lawsuits because they’ve developed a case of full-blown shingles AFTER getting the “vaccine.” Or they’ve dropped their 200-some bucks for the “vaccine,” and then they’ve gotten shingles, and suffered vision damage up to blindness, or postherpetic neuralgia, or other permanent nerve damage.
Zostavax’ 1.7% Effectiveness (Seriously? Seriously.)
Health Sciences Institute (HSI) authors published a January 2016 article which reported, in part, “UCLA researchers found that only one in 175 people who get the vaccine will be able to dodge a shingles flare-up.” Merck, meanwhile, claims Zostavax is 50% effective. Merck arrived at that tortured number this way: In the placebo group, 3.3 percent of the study participants developed shingles, compared to 1.6 percent in the vaccine group. Though that does represent a 50% difference; it also means the real, absolute risk reduction is a woeful 1.7 percent. Is that worth $200-some bucks, given the problems with this “vaccine”? Would you bet your eyesight on it?
Shingles Vaccine Research not Reliable
And even if you think a woeful 1.7% risk reduction is worth the risk of vaccination based on studies funded by the vaccine maker, consider this point from a former editor of the world’s most prestigious medical publication:
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” — Marcia Angell, MD, Drug Companies and Doctors: A story of Corruption. NY Review of Books, Jan. 15, 2009.
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The Shingles Vaccine: Help or Hype?
Pharmacies are pushing very hard to promote the shingles vaccine in my local community at the moment. Signs are everywhere for adults 60 and older to get the “recommended” shingles vaccine and that they are available every single day!
At $219 plus tax per jab, the shingles vaccine is certainly not cheap – that much is certain.
Very interesting! Mass vaccination of children for chicken pox has apparently triggered a large increase in shingles in the adult population. So what has Merck done? It simply repackaged the chicken pox vaccine as Zostovax and made it approximately 14 times stronger.
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http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.c...-help-or-hype/
Shingles Vaccine Deaths Unreported
Nearly 90 Shingles Vaccine Deaths Reported
The National Vaccine Information Center reports that 89 deaths have been linked with the shingles vaccine. The Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) has received reports on shingles containing vaccines since 1990.
Shingles vaccine promoters will argue that the VAERS system reports adverse events that vaccinated people associate with the shingles vaccine, that those deaths may simply be apriori, or merely incidental to the vaccination. Some, perhaps. But all? And the 90 deaths associated or linked with the shingles vaccine in 15 years may be closer to 900, or even 9,000. This is well known, and here’s why.
Vaccine Events Wildly Under-reported
It is common knowledge – except for anyone working in mainstream media – that adverse events from vaccines are wildly under-reported. This well known weakness of VAERS skews all the numbers trotted out by vaccine profiteers and their legions of media and medical shills. Further, federal health officials have done little to increase vaccine provider reporting to VAERS since the 1986 passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. This act vaccinates vaccine makers against liability with regard to vaccines forced on children, but it also requires that vaccine adverse events be reported. That first part is followed religiously by the courts, that second not so much.
Only 1-10 % Adverse Events Reported
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) reports that during the meeting of the National Vaccine Advisory, CDC officials reported that only between one to 10 percent of vaccine adverse events are reported to VAERS. Therefore, the VAERS system that receives some 30,0000 adverse event reports annually should be receiving a minimum of 300,000 adverse event reports (if actual events were really reported), or as many as 3 million adverse events related to vaccines. It’s easy to skew numbers, and nobody skews them better than vaccine profiteers.
CDC promotes More Under-reporting
The CDC, sadly, is now proposing that all VAERS reports be submitted online. No more paper forms will be allowed. Much like the new American voting system – a sham if ever there was one (read Mark Crispin Miller and BlackBoxVoting.org) – the paperless trail will be much easier to disappear. Doctors and nurses and others will no longer be able to scribble an adverse vaccine event on paper when they have a moment. They will be forced to go to a computer and jump through all the attendant hoops. This paperless idea from CDC virtually guarantees we will see fewer adverse event reports (all in the name of “Progress,” of course). NVIC therefore opposes the CDC’s proposal to eliminate the option of submitting handwritten reports.
NVIC writes: “The proposed shift to a completely ‘paperless’ system is likely to result in even more underreporting of vaccine adverse events and penalize those who are not computer literate. These changes could also hinder the effective monitoring and detection of unusual vaccine adverse events occurring in the general population by health scientists.”
Reporting Doctors feel Threatened
NVIC further reports that, “CDC officials also stated that doctors viewed language in the current form relating vaccine provider identification as ‘threatening’ and inferred liability. The new language created by CDC officials to address these concerns does more harm than good because it assumes that all Americans are being vaccinated solely by their primary health care provider rather than in pharmacies, grocery and big box stores, senior living facilities, public health clinics, the work place or in school clinics.”
CDC officials apparently live in a different world than the one you and I inhabit.
NVIC says what’s also missing from the CDC’s proposed new VAERS form is information about vaccine reactions in siblings. Why is the CDC always erring on the side that favors Big Pharma and other corporate entities, and why is mainstream media always doing the same thing? Follow the money.
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February, 2012: The Limits of VAERS
Under reporting. Because the reports are submitted voluntarily, many patients and doctors do not report vaccine reactions. Different estimates exist for the amount of underreporting and range from a factor of 10 to as much as a factor of 100 (meaning that the true number of vaccine reactions is between 10 and 100 times higher than what is reported to VAERS).
Read more:
http://www.medalerts.org/analysis/archives/504
Shingles Vaccine Eye Damage
The shinglesZostovax vaccine Merck Pharmaceuticals has been marketing since 2006 now comes with a warning that it could cause eye damage. February 17, 2016, the FDA approved a label change to Merck’s Zostamax vaccine prescribing information. The change to the label added “Eye Disorders: necrotizing retinitis.” Merck consequently faces Shingles Vaccine Lawsuits over this dubious vaccine.
Keratitis Vision Damage from Vaccines
WebMD reported that researchers found 20 cases of keratitis in children and adults that occurred within a month of receiving a chickenpox or shingles vaccine. Keratitis symptoms for adults developed within 24 days of vaccination, while symptoms in children began within 14 days of vaccination. Researchers concluded there is a probable relationship between the vaccine and the eye inflammation, though the study wasn’t designed to prove the vaccine actually caused the condition. (Of course it wasn’t.)
Keratitis causes inflammation and scarring of the eye tissue. If one fails to get treated fast, it can lead to permanent vision loss.
Health Sciences Institute (HSI) points out in a Jan 21, 2016 piece that the researchers say they don’t know why the shingles shot may cause keratitis, but we do know that keratitis has been linked to autoimmune disorders, and that shots like the shingles vaccine can profoundly short circuit the immune system.
The mainstream media didn’t miss a beat, of course, telling us that despite these little “side effects” (hardly worth a mention, really), it’s still a good idea to get the shingles vaccine, and never mind the fact that it barely works at all, or perhaps causes more cases of shingles than it prevents.
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Merck Admits Shingles Vaccine Can Cause Eye Damage…and Shingles
Two important FDA approved changes to the warning label of Merck Pharmaceutical’s shingles vaccine, Zostavax, have been made since the controversial drug was introduced in 2006. The first was in August 2014, when, in addition to potentially causing chickenpox, another side effect was added: shingles! That’s right. The vaccine that had been – and continues to be -- aggressively marketed to prevent seniors from contracting this excruciating condition was found to actually cause shingles in some individuals.
In February of this year, the FDA approved a label change to warn those who prescribe the Zostavax vaccine of another potential side effect: “Eye Disorders: necrotizing retinitis.”
Vision Damage linked to Shingles Vaccine
This disorder, as well as keratitis, causes inflammation and scarring of the eye tissue and can lead to permanent vision loss if not treated quickly. It was reported by WebMD 20 individuals (children and adults) developed keratitis within a month of receiving a chickenpox or shingles vaccine. Keratitis symptoms for adults developed within 24 days of vaccination, while symptoms in children began within 14 days of vaccination.
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http://info.cmsri.org/the-driven-res...e-and-shingles
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Attention: Long Wang, M.D., Ph.D. February 17, 2016
351 North Sumneytown Pike
P.O. Box 1000
MS UG2CD48
North Wales, PA 19454-1099
Dear Dr. Wang:
We have approved your request to supplement your biologics license application (BLA) for Zoster Vaccine Live (ZOSTAVAX) manufactured at your facility, to include a change to the ZOSTAVAX US prescribing information to add “Eye Disorders: necrotizing retinitis (patients on immunosuppressive therapy)” to Section 6.3 (Postmarketing Experience). Please provide your final content of labeling in Structured Product Labeling (SPL) format and include the carton and container labels. In addition, please submit three original paper copies for carton and container final printed labeling. All final labeling should be submitted as Product correspondence to this BLA at the time of use (prior to marketing) and include implementation
information on FDA Form 356h.
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First Medical Research Textbook Linking Vaccines to Autoimmunity
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First Medical Textbook on Research Linking Vaccines to Autoimmunity
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Vaccines and Autoimmunity 1st Edition
by Yehuda Shoenfeld (Editor), Nancy Agmon-Levin (Editor), Lucija Tomljenovic (Editor)
In light of the discovery of Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants, or ASIA, Vaccines and Autoimmunity explores the role of adjuvants – specifically aluminum in different vaccines – and how they can induce diverse autoimmune clinical manifestations in genetically prone individuals.
Vaccines and Autoimmunity is divided into three sections; the first contextualizes the role of adjuvants in the framework of autoimmunity, covering the mechanism of action of adjuvants, experimental models of adjuvant induced autoimmune diseases, infections as adjuvants, the Gulf War Syndrome, sick-building syndrome (SBS), safe vaccines, toll-like receptors, TLRS in vaccines, pesticides as adjuvants, oil as adjuvant, mercury, aluminum and autoimmunity. The following section reviews literature on vaccines that have induced autoimmune conditions such as MMR and HBV, among others. The final section covers diseases in which vaccines were known to be the solicitor – for instance, systemic lupus erythematosus – and whether it can be induced by vaccines for MMR, HBV, HCV, and others.
Edited by leaders in the field, Vaccines and Autoimmunity is an invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers working in pathogenic and epidemiological studies.
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Shingles Vaccine causes Shingles
People conditioned Zostovaxby years of vaccine propaganda may find it not newsworthy that the shingles vaccine causes shingles. For thinking people, however, this might be a news item. What sense does it make to be “vaccinated” against something when that vaccination gives a person the exact malady it is advertised to resist? In August 2014, the FDA moved to make Merck include on its Zostavax shingles vaccine the “side effect” of “shingles.”
FDA: add “Shingles” as “Side Effect”
FDA sent a letter to Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. August 28, 2014:
We have approved your request (to) update the Package Insert, Section 6.3 Postmarketing Experience to include “infections and infestations: Herpes zoster (vaccine strain)” and to update the Patient Package Insert to include “Shingles” in the “What are the possible side effects of ZOSTAVAX?” section.
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Shingles Vaccine Lawsuits
Meanwhile, some people are filing shingles vaccine lawsuits because they’ve developed a case of full-blown shingles AFTER getting the “vaccine.” Or they’ve dropped their 200-some bucks for the “vaccine,” and then they’ve gotten shingles, and suffered vision damage up to blindness, or postherpetic neuralgia, or other permanent nerve damage.
See also – Shingles Vaccine: Help or Hype?
Zostavax’ 1.7% Effectiveness (Seriously? Seriously.)
Health Sciences Institute (HSI) authors published a January 2016 article which reported, in part, “UCLA researchers found that only one in 175 people who get the vaccine will be able to dodge a shingles flare-up.” Merck, meanwhile, claims Zostavax is 50% effective. Merck arrived at that tortured number this way: In the placebo group, 3.3 percent of the study participants developed shingles, compared to 1.6 percent in the vaccine group. Though that does represent a 50% difference; it also means the real, absolute risk reduction is a woeful 1.7 percent. Is that worth $200-some bucks, given the problems with this “vaccine”? Would you bet your eyesight on it?
Shingles Vaccine Research not Reliable
And even if you think a woeful 1.7% risk reduction is worth the risk of vaccination based on studies funded by the vaccine maker, consider this point from a former editor of the world’s most prestigious medical publication:
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” — Marcia Angell, MD, Drug Companies and Doctors: A story of Corruption. NY Review of Books, Jan. 15, 2009.
Merck’s Tainted History
It seems reasonable to evaluate the vaccine’s maker to see if its advertising the effectiveness of its vaccines is believable. It’s helpful to keep in mind that Merck also produced the ill-fated Gardisil vaccine nightmare. A Merck whistleblower recently explained that the company faked measles vaccine data in order to retain lucrative government contracts. See it here: Merck Whistleblower. Merck also produced Vioxx, the four-dollar aspirin that caused thousands of people heart attacks and strokes. The company settled thousands of lawsuits for a collective several billion dollars after Vioxx killed an estimated 500,000 Americans.
You don’t sell the drug; you sell the disease
Merck founder George Merck appeared in TIME magazine (the great disinformation rag which helped sell the “lone-nut” theory in the murder of JFK) in 1956. Merck surprisingly told some truth to TIME at the time. He explained that you don’t sell the drug; you sell the disease.
Merck sells its shingles vaccine in this same old fashioned way, by selling the disease. It uses the oldest trick in the book, the Hegelian dialectic: problem/reaction/solution. Show somebody the problem, then sell them the solution. Since all vaccines are sold with the fear – it’s all about fear – all a company needs do is show the horrors of a potential “outbreak” and then swoop in with the solution. To sell the shingles vaccine, Merck displays shingles problems on its web site. You can watch a vaccine promo video there of how horrible shingles is. Then you get the non sequitur solution clearly implied: Because shingles is really bad, you need the shingles vaccine to stop it from getting you.
The glaring problem is that when you look closely, there’s no guarantee the shingles vaccine works, certainly no guarantee that it will work for you. Is it worth the risks? The fine print will tell you it appears to lower the risk of contracting shingles for some 50 percent of at least one study’s participants, but look closer and the chance it will work at all is much lower than that. Look closer yet and you can begin to see “side effects,” the great euphemism for things that really do happen, that have happened, and that will happen again to some.
Pharmacies and television spots are pushing hard to promote the shingles vaccine. Signs tell adults 60 and older to get the “recommended” shingles vaccine. Shingles does represent a threat to seniors.
Shingles Vaccine 51% Effective?
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) says of the shingles vaccine on its FAQ page:
• One live virus shingles vaccine was licensed in the U.S. in 2006 for adults over 50 years, Zostavax, made by Merck.
• The CDC recommends people 60 and older take one jab of the shingles vaccine.
• Shingles vaccine reported complications include local swelling, pain and redness at injection site, zoster-like skin rash, headache, joint pain, muscle pain, fever, abnormally swollen glands, hypersensitivity reactions including anaphylaxis (shock).
• Effectiveness of the shingles vaccine is reported to be about 51 percent. (emphasis ours) The Merck shingles vaccine contains live attenuated varicella zoster virus. Vaccine strain virus transmissions from shingles-vaccinated people to others has been reported.
• Mass use of chickenpox vaccine by children in the U.S. since 1995 has limited natural boosting of Varicella Zoster immunity in the adult population. Consequently, a significant increase has occurred in cases of
Herpes zoster among adults.
Mass Vaccination triggers Shingles Outbreak
Did you get all that? Mass vaccination of children for chicken pox reportedly triggered a large increase in shingles for adults. Merck’s response was to repackage the chicken pox vaccine as Zostovax and make it some 14 times stronger.
The shingles vaccine is essentially the chicken pox vaccine 14X stronger. Yet it STILL only boasts an effectiveness rate of 51 percent. When you look closer, that figure is also misleading.
Contraindications for Shingles Vaccine
CDC recommends the shingles vaccine not be taken by the following people:
• Women who are pregnant or who might become pregnant within 3 months.
• Persons who are immunosuppressed or immune deficient, such as those with a history of leukemia, lymphoma or other • disorders affecting the bone marrow or lymphatic system, AIDS or those on immunosuppressive therapy.
• Those individuals who are experiencing an acute illness or fever.
In addition, people who have experienced a previous severe allergic reaction to gelatin or the antibiotic neomycin should not get the shingles vaccine.
Reported side effects of Shingles Vaccine include:
• Local swelling, pain and redness at injection site
• Shingles like rash
• Headache, joint pain, muscle pain, fever
• Abnormally swollen glands
• Anaphylaxis (shock)
Vaccine not for so-called Pro Lifers
Shingles vaccine contains con-sensually aborted fetal cell tissue [con-sensually aborted?]
The shingles vaccine ingredients, according to the product information insert:
“ZOSTAVAX is a lyophilized preparation of the Oka/Merck strain of live, attenuated varicella-zoster virus (VZV). ZOSTAVAX, when reconstituted as directed, is a sterile suspension for subcutaneous administration. Each 0.65-mL dose contains a minimum of 19,400 PFU (plaque-forming units) of Oka/Merck strain of VZV when reconstituted and stored at room temperature for up to 30 minutes. Each dose contains 31.16 mg of sucrose, 15.58 mg of hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, 3.99 mg of sodium chloride, 0.62 mg of monosodium L-glutamate (MSG), 0.57 mg of sodium phosphate dibasic, 0.10 mg of potassium phosphate monobasic, 0.10 mg of potassium chloride; residual components of MRC-5 cells including DNA and protein; and trace quantities of neomycin and bovine calf serum. The product contains no preservatives.”
MSG, Aborted Fetal Tissue for You
The shingles vaccine contains MSG and aborted fetal cell tissue, MRC-5 cells, “developed in September 1966 from lung tissue taken from a 14 week fetus aborted for psychiatric reason from a 27 year old physically healthy woman.” Pro Life advocates might care to pay attention. Is it morally ok to protest against abortion and then use the rancid results for yourself?
Does the shingles vaccine Work?
Postherpetic neuralgia from shingles can be debilitating for seniors. Even if the shingles vaccine didn’t help reduce infections at all but significantly reduced postherpetic neuralgia, that would be potentially wonderful. However, the marketing, as usual, clashes with the reality.
According to Dr. David Brownstein, the reduction in postherpetic neuralgia from the shingles vaccine is so small as to be nearly insignificant.
Dr. Brownstein says: “Merck touts a 39% decline with the use of the vaccine. Further analysis of the data might lead you to a different conclusion. Approximately 0.4% of unvaccinated persons versus 0.14% of vaccinated people developed postherpetic neuralgia. The 39% decline is the less-than-accurate ‘relative risk’ (0.14/ 0.4). If we looked at the more accurate absolute risk, we come up with a decline of 0.26% of postherpetic neuralgia in those that were vaccinated.”
Shingles Vaccine? Really?
Really? A tiny .26% decline in the risk of postherpetic neuralgia for those who receive the shingles vaccine?
At upwards of $200, the shingles vaccine isn’t cheap. Neither is advertising, but somebody has to pay for that advertising. Will it be you?
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